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"Oh man it was just amazing. I mean, once I sat and watched him early morning go get the guitar (I would always spend late nights at the studio just like he did. That’s where I get my vampire-late night shit from!). I remember him buying the guitar and within months, him getting me and saying ‘Eh! Come upstairs real quick.’ Then he got on the pool table and started playing ‘Good Luv’ which went on The Show album. And I’m like there sitting thinking ‘You’re a crazy-ass motherf****r!’ You don’t just buy a guitar and start playing like that. Who can just do that typa s**t?! I mean he was that amazing. I’d just sit and watch him do that type of s**t a lot. Another time, I’d sat there and watched him work on that Al green song ‘Could this be the love’. I’d sat and watched him do the track, write the song and tell me what to sing within minutes!! And it’s like ‘You are CRAZY!’ I mean who does that typa sh*t?! I even remember when we first moved into his house, I saw him go buy and some equipment in order to prepare for our move to Rochester. He got me & Static (Major) to come check out the new equipment later on– It’s 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning and he’d just start playing shit even though the equipment was practically brand new- coming up with different melodies and sounds in minutes!! CRAZY! All I could think was this cat right here is somethin’ else. As for the writing, those things you hear about how quick he is- the 5 minute thing? That’s no lie. I’ve seen it. That’s why…I mean, there are a lot of tight producers out there, including Tim. A LOT of tight producers out there, but they aint got a motherf****n’ thing on DeVante. And it’s not because I admire him. It’s not because I’ve worked with him. That’s just because of what I’ve seen & heard. I know aint nobody doing s**t like that; they aint moving it like that." - Smoke E. Digglera (Playa) Da Bassment Crew #ForeverDeVante #DeVanteSwing #DaBassment

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Ginuwine & DeVante Swing

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ACCION FROM DA BASSMENT: What ended up happening is that while I still rap and focus on my music, I became a Born Again Christian, which is just as big a passion for me now. And funny enough, it was DeVante that without realising changed me from an Athiest to a Christian. What happened was there was an incident that happened before I left the crew, between DeVante and the owner of Platinum Island (where we’d record music) who was an Athiest. This guy knew that DeVante was a preacher’s kid and he challenged DeVante theologically in a debate about religion and I kid you not, when we left the studio, DeVante had explained things so thoroughly it looked as if DeVante was a genius and the guy you’d expect to have the IQ of a genius was a dummy and the ignorant one, and me myself I wasn’t a professing Athiest but I was living like an Athiest, but he basically persuaded me as well. It was at that point that I’d made a decision in my heart that I wanted to learn about Jesus and the things of God. So when we left that room, I was still amazed by DeVante because my eyes too had opened to the idea of a higher being. Once I came home after leaving the crew, over the course of time I’d enrolled into college, got my degree, I had an encounter with the Lord and had ended up giving my life to the Lord and becoming born again. And basically he called me one last time and I was excited so I told him about all that. And he said, "Man that’s good. I’m happy for you." And I never ever heard from him again after that. He has crossed my mind all this time though. It’s not an out of sight out of mind thing. Y’know if I knew how to get hold of him I would because I’d love to be in touch with him again and know he’s doing good. I still have a lot of love and respect for that guy and nothing has changed there. #foreverdevante #devanteswing #dabassment

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"His work ethic is just amazing. That is the only way I can describe him. There are just numerous occasions that spring to mind but I remember when he used to teach us to sing songs not just on our albums, but even gospel songs, he would arrange them on the piano, and then arrange our vocals, instruct us how to sing, "Susan, this is how I want you sing your part, Rolita, you should sing it like this, " and then with Tweet, and it would just be effortless. Everything would just be automatic-it wouldn't take days or even hours for him to arrange something to sound amazing. His arrangements were like no-one else's, and as far as producing songs, everything just comes to him. The music and the lyrics just come to him, just like that. It's just all in his head and he just creates it. And when he's in studio mode, he is IN studio mode! He could be in the studio for 2-3 days, working on music, NOT going to sleep while we're all fallin' asleep. We'd always be thinking how does this man have the energy to stay up like this?! We'd feel bad for fallin' asleep while he was working hard, and try to stay awake and not fall asleep because he wasn't fallin' asleep. I mean it was crazy! Keeping up with DeVante was impossible. He was just that into music. He's a genius- a total genius. I've never seen anybody like that or heard of anybody like that in my life." - Susan Weems (Sugah) from Da Bassment Crew #ForeverDeVante #DeVanteSwing #DaBassment

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Instrumental Prod. by: Jacob C. Thompson aka "Tim-B."/ Copyright of: KNM Records-2011/ Da Bassment Inc.-2011. Major Publishing By: BMI Publishing Inc.-2011 (*Inspired by: Aaliyah)/ Courtesy of: Blackground Records Inc.-1997 (Orig. Produced by: Timbaland/ Courtesy of: Timbaland Prod.-1997)